Excellent review: Core Duo and Core 2 Duo compared

[K. Eng]

Anandtech Article

The results are fairly suprising. Even though the Core 2 Duo is a much larger chip with more cache and execution resources than the Core Duo, the Core 2 Duo does not seem to consume more power than the Core Duo at the same clock speed.

The Core 2 is generally faster (5-15% per clock) as well. The advantage can be as much as 20% in multimedia applications

Based on this report, I would say that people looking to do a lot of encoding or video editing work on their notebook should get a Core 2. The rest of us would be fine with Core.

[Saml01]

Anandtech Article

The results are fairly suprising. Even though the Core 2 Duo is a much larger chip with more cache and execution resources than the Core Duo, the Core 2 Duo does not seem to consume more power than the Core Duo at the same clock speed.

The Core 2 is generally faster (5-15% per clock) as well. The advantage can be as much as 20% in multimedia applications

Based on this report, I would say that people looking to do a lot of encoding or video editing work on their notebook should get a Core 2. The rest of us would be fine with Core.

Based on the report I think smart people who do encoding and stuff would look at 10-15% and then think about how much money they would have to invest to get it and laugh.